The founder of modern nursing expressed her revolutionary ideas of hospital reform in these two essays, published in 1859 and presented the previous year at the Social Science Congress. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale achieved renown as...

The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our handsThe math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How...

Excerpt from Parallel Merge Sort We give a parallel implementation of merge sort on a crew pram that uses 11 processors and O(logn) time; the constant in the running time is small. We also give a more complex version of the algorithm for the erew...

The third edition of this well known text continues to provide a solid foundation in mathematical analysis for undergraduate and first-year graduate students. The text begins with a discussion of the real number system as a complete ordered field....

This #1 annual internal medicine and clinical practice guide turns the latest research into improved patient outcomes now fully updated and revised.Written by clinicians renowned in their respective fields, CMDT offers the most current insights into...

Now in its third edition, 'Mathematical Concepts in the Physical Sciences' provides a comprehensive introduction to the areas of mathematical physics. It combines all the essential math concepts into one compact, clearly written reference.

An introduction to the Calculus, with an excellent balance between theory and technique. Integration is treated before differentiation—this is a departure from most modern texts, but it is historically correct, and it is the best way to establish the...

'The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written.' Martin Gardner, 'Scientific American''The value of the book lies in the wealth of ingenious puzzles. They afford amusement,...

Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease, Third Edition, is an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases--primarily...

Excerpt from A Key to the Western Calculator: Containing the Solution of All the Examples and Questions for Exercise, With Reference to the Pages Where They Stand The sign of equality, and is pronounced equal. The sign of addition, pronounced added...

Excerpt from Intermediate Arithmetic Our common notation started in India about 2000 years ago. The Arabs took it to Europe. Therefore these symbols are called Arabic numerals. You know that there are nine of these numerals besides the zero, which is...

Excerpt from A Key to the Western Calculator: Containing the Solution of All the Examples and Questions for Exercise, Whith Reference to the Pages Where They Stand A vinculum IS placed over several quantities to danot that they are to be considered...

Excerpt from Solving Sparse Triangular Linear Systems Using Fortran With Parallel Extensions of the Nyu Ultracomputer Prototype First use equation 1 to solve for the first solution component. Given this first component, solve either equation 2 for...

Excerpt from The Apram: The Rounds Complexity Measure and the Explicit Costs of Synchronization In this paper we consider the effect of process asynchrony on parallel algorithm design. As is well known, the main effort in parallel algorithm design...

Excerpt from Investigating Smooth Multiple Regression by the Method of Average Derivatives The output of the procedure is three - fold: a summary of the relative impacts of changes in x on y (via a graphical depiction of the possible nonlinearity...

Excerpt from Approximate Parallel Scheduling, Vol. 1: The Basic Technique With Applications to Optimal Parallel List Ranking in Logarithmic Time Input: A linked list of length n. It is given in an array of length n, not necessarily in the order of...

Excerpt from A Key to the Western Calculator: Containing the Solution of All the Examples and Questions for Exercise, With Reference to the Pages Where They Stand The sign of equality, and is pronounced equal. The sign of addition, pronounced added...

Excerpt from Investigation of Inequalities in the Motion of the Moon Produced by the Action of the Planets The theory of the action of the planets on the Moon being, in several points, the most intricate with which the mathematical astronomer has to...

Excerpt from XML Modeling Language for Linear Programming: Specification and Examples XML employs the full ascii character set. No distinction is made, however, between the lower - case and upper - case forms of a letter; they may be used...

Excerpt from The Vital Statistics of Boston: Containing an Abstract of the Bills of Mortality for the Last Twenty-Nine Years, and a General View of the Population and Health of the City at Other Periods of Its History The records of deaths are made...

Excerpt from Elementary School Mathematics by Grades, Globe Series, Vol. 7: Arithmetic, Geometry, and Algebra 3. John's bicycle cost and his father's cost three times as much, less 50 15. Find the cost of his father's. About the Publisher Forgotten...

Excerpt from A Key Containing the Statements and Solutions of Questions in Professor Charles Davies' New Elementary Algebra: For the Use of Teachers Only It was not intended, originally, to prepare a Key to the Elementary Algebra, but the urgent...

Excerpt from Key to Leonard's Arithmetic: For Teachers Only The scholar should not be required to proceed in each sum in the same manner that is pursued here; it is sufficient if he ob tains the true answer by' a correct method, though it be more...

Excerpt from Selection of Econometric Models With Out-of-Sample Data Knowing that a statistic tends to choose the best model is often not enough. Instead, it is desirable to know whether two competing models are significantly different in terms of...

Excerpt from A Metadata Approach to Resolving Semantic Conflicts With the development of complex information systems, the need for the integration of heterogeneous information systems, and the availability of numerous online computer data sources, it...